Depicts a French interior scene with fireplace and large mirror flanked by paintings
Description:
Title from inventory. and Signed by the artist in lower left, label on verso: "P. Navez Paris," in an ornate carved and gilt frame with a plaque bearing the title and the artist's name, with a repair in the lower left corner.
A small print depicting a scene from Homer's Odyssey as he sails back to his home in Ithaca: Two Laestrygonian, who are giants, one who upends one Odysseus's ships as other eats one of the men as the fail into the sea. The high cliffs of Lamos is in the distance on the right
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Possibly a book illustration?
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Laestrygonians (Greek mythology), Giants (Fictitious characters), Cannibalism, and Ships
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Drawing of a lamp in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill; in the shape of a foot in a sandal, toe to the right, a hole in the extended front part of the sandal; a handle with a leaf is attached to the ankle on the left side; a figurine of a sleeping Cupid in a seated position is attached to the top of the ankle, just in front of the handle
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 172 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Cupid (Roman deity),
Title devised by curator., Companion drawing signed and dated in image: J.H.M. 1773., Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., One of two drawings in a folder., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom of plate., and On leaf 48 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Page 185. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., Mounted above on the same page is a pen and ink drawing of nearly the same scene., and Mounted on page 185 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Page 185. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found., Mounted below on the same page is a watercolor drawing of nearly the same scene., and Mounted on page 185 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641).
Title devised by curator., Signed and dated on pedestal in image: J.H.M. 1773., Companion drawing: Landscape with arch., Formerly housed as part of the SH Contents collection., One of two drawings in a folder., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger, based on the date assigned to the scrapbook in which the drawing is found., and Mounted on leaf 42 in volume 1 of Anne Damer's Scrapbooks.